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According to a status report on the 2017 tax filing season provided by the Deputy Inspector General for Audit, during calendar year 2017 the IRS began accepting and processing individual tax returns on January 23, 2017, as scheduled.

Here are some of the statistics provided in the report.

As of April 7, 2017, the IRS received approximately 103.6 million tax returns.

The IRS expects to receive approximately 152 million individual income tax returns during 2017.

So far in 2017, the IRS has issued 80.3 million refunds.

As of March 25, 2017, the IRS identified and confirmed 38,728 fraudulent tax returns and prevented the issuance of $316.1 million in fraudulent tax refunds as a result of identity-theft filters.

In fiscal year 2016, the IRS collected more than $3.3 trillion in tax revenue, processed more than 244 million tax returns, and issued more than $400 billion in tax refunds.

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95.5 million (92.1%) were electronically filed (e-filed) and 8.2 million (7.9%) were filed on paper.

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More than $228.9 billion.

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Total IRS staffing as of January 7, 2017 was approximately 83,000. Included in the total are approximately 16,200 seasonal and part-time employees.